New Orleans in the Atlantic world : between land and sea / edited by William Boelhower.

"Previously published as a special issue of Atlantic studies"--Prelim. pages.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / William Boelhower -- Unheralded contributions across the Atlantic world / Jay D. Edwards -- Meaning of water in the American south : transatlantic encounters / Craig E. Colten -- Greater Louisiana connections and conjunctures : placing New Orleans in an Atlantic time-geographic perspective / Kent Mathewson -- White lies : human property and domestic slavery aboard the slave ship Creole / Walter Johnson -- Lafcadio Hearn in New Orleans and the Caribbean / Adam Rothman -- History from below the water line : sharks and the Atlantic slave trade / Marcus Rediker -- Introduction / William Boelhower -- Locating the Isle of Orleans : Atlantic and American historiographical perspectives / Mark L. Thompson -- Slave trade merchants of Spanish New Orleans, 1763-1803 : clarifying the colonial slave trade to Louisiana in Atlantic perspective / Douglas B. Chambers -- "Keep alive the powers of Africa " : Katherine Dunham, Zora Neale Hurston, Maya Deren, and the circum-Caribbean culture of Vodoun / Dorothea Fischer-Hornung -- Placing Louisiana in the Francophone world : opportunities and challenges / Alexander B. Murphy -- (Post-)K New Orleans and the Hispanic Atlantic : geographic method and meaning / Andrew Sluyter.